Ken Barris (South Africa) The Life of Worm, from New Writing from Africa 2009
Lily Mabura (Kenya) How Shall We Kill the Bishop? from Wasafiri No53, Spring 2008
Namwali Serpell (Zambia) Muzungu, from The Best American Short Stories 2009
Alex Smith (South Africa) Soulmates, from New Writing from Africa 2009
Olufemi Terry (Sierra Leone) Stickfighting Days, from Chimurenga volÂ
The caine prize has been announced today set up in memory of michael caine of booker it awards a prize to best writing in africa this year there was over a hundred entries
last years was E C osundu from Nigeria
I hadn’t heard of this prize before but the list of books looks incredible. Thanks for posting about it, I am glad it is now on my radar 🙂
yes it does and jackie says some people go on to write great novels ,stu
I went to see a talk on the Caine prize at the Cheltenham festival last year. I’m not a big fan of short stories so the actual winner doesn’t bother me, but they were good to listen to and some of the previous winners have gone on to write novels that sound interesting.I think the work that this prize does to help new African authors is the main plus point of this award.
yes helps get people thinking about african lit and is a good guide to who may write a good novel at some point ,the only downpoint is that its just in english ,all the best stu